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| The Future of Audio Amplification @kosst_amojanThe Berning TF-10 is a tube preamp with about 10 tubes in it. It draws about 60 watts; that's about the same as my laptop charger. Panasonic came out with a new formula for electrolytic capacitors some years back that allowed them to ... | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. What Al said- The issue here is something called 'characteristic impedance'. The BNCs are designed for cables with a characteristic impedance of either 50 or 75 ohms. Without getting into the designer's head, it uncertain what CI the RCA connectio... | |
| Horn listeners - Do you have trouble listening to others? @erik_squires My GF and I have no troubles conversing while playing my system. Glare is not universal with any technology. Certainly not horns. I've heard some solid state amps that are glare-free too (considerably more rare). Glare IME is an indi... | |
| Mixing balanced and unbalanced inputs/outputs on Ayre preamp - amateur question! However, Ill forever disagree that balanced is always better for short runs as some of the worlds finest gear is unbalanced internally and sounds well, world class still. @frostdotcomFor example the Ampex 351 tape electronics. But if you examin... | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. Sorry, I meant amps, not volts.@bwguy That amp can draw over 10 amps at full power. Probably not a good idea.Does the amp hum if nothing is connected to it- just speakers? | |
| The Future of Audio Amplification Laptop chargers, battery chargers, TV's, you name it. -Which don't draw any more power than the Berning TF-10, FWIW. I had a USB power supply fail on me when I took it on the Grand Divide Mountain Bike Route, but that was likely due to vibration m... | |
| Mixing balanced and unbalanced inputs/outputs on Ayre preamp - amateur question! my bryston sp2 connected to a classe cav150 sounds better unbalanced than balanced. Remember, internally, all throughput is unbalanced. The balancing and unbalancing happens at the input and the output of the line level connections. In short... | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. my M-60s are supplied straight from the wall. They are not happy running through the P-10! From the point of view of distortion from the M-60's as a function of voltage, would you expect a measurable difference in distortion over the range of... | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. Would a "normal" power cord supplied with a piece of gear have enough excess power passing capacity so that any drop in voltage due to the cord, is from one satisfactory voltage to a lesser, yet still satisfactory voltage to power the unit? Or... | |
| The Future of Audio Amplification Electrolytic caps aren't famous for having exceptionally low ESR, but they're the only technology that's compact enough to provide the current capacity required. The sub-optimal ESR leads to internal heating of the capacitor. The heat dries the... | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. Ralph, couldn't he use a Jensen transformer to make he XLR to RCA change? Would it still offer the proper grounding?Yes.Okay, does atmasphere believe that power cables can make huge differences in an amplifier’s sonic performance and why?I don't u... | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. I swap between amps with some that only have single-ended inputs and others with only balanced inputs and others with both. My preamp has outputs for both. I recently acquired a very nice 4m balanced IC. For the cases when I want to use the ... | |
| Monostrapped Atma-sphere M-60 The M-60s or any of our amps are easily monostrapped. Many years ago the idea of making only one amplifier and you just got more if you needed more power did occur to us. But the market seemed a lot happier with different models. You need a 'Y' ad... | |
| Mixing balanced and unbalanced inputs/outputs on Ayre preamp - amateur question! Since the Ayre has both connections its no worries.Some tips:The Ayre converts all single-ended sources to balanced due to its differential operation. So no worries on the input side.All phono cartridges are balanced sources FWIW; the tone arm con... | |
| Joule-Electra VZN OTL Users- I Need advice! He continues to offer that service, and with all due respect to Ralph, probably knows a much about the products as anyone currently active.FWIW Rich and I work together to support the legacy JA products. When you are going to leave for more than ... |